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AFP raids Labor offices over NBN leaks

Conroy, Clare staffers searched.

The Australian Federal Police has raided Labor Party offices in Melbourne as part of an investigation into leaked documents concerning the national broadband network.

On Thursday night members of the AFP raided the office of Labor senator and former Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, as well as the homes of two staffers for Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare, Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus confirmed. Clare's office has been contacted for comment.

"Tonight's events are unprecedented - we have never witnessed such an extraordinary action during a federal election campaign," Dreyfus said in a statement.

Labor frontbencher Tony Burke suggested to ABC's 730 that the government had improperly influenced the AFP to raid the Labor office.

"There's no doubt that the documents that came from the NBN caused immense damage to Malcolm Turnbull when they showed the cost blowout of the NBN, the fact that it was slower, the fact that it was going to be delayed," Burke said.

"I make no criticism of the AFP at all. I simply know that when there have been leaks, even from the national security committee of this government, when there have been government staffers walknig around [this] building handing out cabinet-in-confidence documents, the government hasn't previously acted on referrals to the AFP," Burke said.

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